X‑rays

Resources

general
- Generation of Electrons, Electromagnetic Radiation and Neutrons; Absorption, Fluorescence and Detection, Joe Smith, University of Chicago
historical
- general
  - Deutsches Röntgen-Museum, Remscheid
  - Historical Overview of the Discovery of the x‑ray, Joyce Calarco, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
  - x‑rays (photos of antique apparatus), Museum of Physics, University of Queensland
- nobel foundation
  - Nobel Prize in Physics 1901, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
  - Nobel Prize in Physics 1927, Arthur Compton
  - Nobel Prize in Physics 1930, Chandrasekhara Raman
- papers
  - Röntgen,Wilhelm Conrad. On a New Kind of Rays, Nature. Vol. 53 (1896): 274-277. (Another copy can be found here.)
  - Compton, Arthur H. A Quantum Theory of the Scattering of x‑rays by Light Elements. Physical Review. Vol. 21, No. 5 (May 1923): 483-502.
  - Raman and Krishnan. A New Type of Secondary Radiation. Nature. Vol. 121 (1928): 501-502.
  - double helix: 50 years of DNA, five classic papers from Nature that describe and provide evidence for the double helix being the structure of DNA
  - Anatomy of Photo 51, Lexi Krock, 22 April 2003, NOVA
radiography
- Nick Veasey, x‑ray Photographer
  - Exposing the invisible, Video on TED.com (2009)
radiology
- History of Radiology (RealAudio slideshow), Scott D. Klioze, University of Florida
- A Century of Radiology, Radiology Centennial, Penn State University Penn State College of Medicine
solar sails
- Solar Sailing, The Planetary Society
- Union pour la Promotion de la Propulsion Photonique
spectroscopy
- x‑ray Fluorescence, M. Matloc kM. Issa, A. Hutchinson, University of Kentucky
- x‑ray Periodic Table, Pathikrit Bandyopadhyay, Illinois Institute of Technology
synchrotron radiation
- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
- Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung (BESSY)
- Center for Advanced Microstructures & Devices, Louisiana State University (LSU)
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
- Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungslabor
- Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron
- National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
- Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME)
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut
- Synchrotron Radiation Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Synchrotron Radiation Source, Daresbury Laboratory
- Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facilty (SURF), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
x‑ray tubes
- US Patent 1,203,495, Vacuum-Tube, William Coolidge, General Electric, 1916
- x‑ray Tubes, Kilokat's Antique Light Bulb Site

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